Submissions are currently open for the Palette Poetry Prize. An award of $4,000 and publication in Palette Poetry will be given for a poem that “speaks to what poetry is and can be for our world today.” Shane McCrae will judge.

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Submissions are open internationally to any poet writing in English. Using the online submission system [1], submit up to three poems of any length with a $20 entry fee by August 15.

Guest judge Shane McCrae is the author of six books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award [2]. Watch a video of McCrae [3] reading “Panopticon,” a poem from the collection.

Palette Poetry is an online journal that publishes new poetry from emerging and established poets, including Courtney Lamar Charleston [4], Dean Rader [5], and Laura Villareal [6]. Free submissions [7] are accepted year-round, and poets receive $50 per published poem. Visit the website [8] for more information.